“You know the type.” — pssh, yeah. Phineas does look disconcertingly happy on this page, but considering the rest of the time he just looks disconcerting… maybe that’s not so different.
The color makes this page even more intense.

Have to say I really like the little details like the bandages on Phineas, although I’m not sure I want to know how they got there. They’re all over his neck and his wrists :X I was impressed when I noticed them though!
I have a question–are prisoners allowed to shave themselves? It doesn’t seem like you’d let them have something as dangerous as a razor blade, but it’s not like every prisoner in the world has a beard, either. I’ve always sort of wondered that.

prisoners are allowed to have disposable razors. Which seems like a security threat, and indeed it is! A lot of makeshift weapons are made out of handles of things like toothbrushes imbedded with many straight razors taken out of the disposables.

You can try to limit the amount of dangerous objects prisoners have access to, but at the end of the day there’s nothing you can do to prevent them from being violent if they’re so inclined.

Schtein’s mother died of a stroke while he was away at college, and Schtein didn’t intentionally kill the Director or any of the people attending Langstrom’s dimenstration, well, maybe he wanted to kill Ben, but he definitely didn’t intend to do it that way!

Panel two might be one of the creepiest things you’ve ever drawn o.o
I do wonder how people like that fare in real life. Would the tougher prisoners avoid him because of his disturbing reputation, or would his annoying personality get him beat up all the time? Maybe he only bugs people like Schtein who are too freaked out to chase him out of their living quarters.

Second panel I noticed that Phineas reminds me a little bit of the Warden. Maybe it’s the gap tooth and yellow glasses. . . At any rate, not a bad association, except now I expect Phineas’ non-jumpsuit attire to be a fashionable purple tailcoat and top hat.
That aside, I love this page. And I’m ashamed to say that I’m Phineas’ side on this one. Sure, explosions can do the trick, but what’s a chapter in prison without at least one page featuring a man getting a shiv shoved into his carotid?

Phineas is right. I mean, not about all the sadistic stuff, but the only way for Schtein to get out is to get rid of the leader.

ps it’s like in Ender’s Game. If Ender hadn’t killed Boso, that kid would have killed him eventually. It feels pretty similar to this…..Beckey I am now wondering if that went through your head when you wrote this part

You know, I just noticed two things: all of the bandages on Phineas (which was said in another comment so I won’t talk about it) and also the absence of his wedding ring! Now, I’m not an expert on prisons and stuff, but would they take away a man/woman’s wedding ring? Or did something happen between Phineas and his wife? Hmmmmm……